Katie Bouman was born on May 9, 1989, and grew up in West Lafayette, Indiana. She works as an imaging scientist and became an Assistant Professor at the California Institute of Technology.
Quick Facts
Name: Katherine Louise Bouman
Birthday: May 9, 1989
Age: 29 years old
Husband: Joe Leong
Ethnicity/Race: White
Nationality: American
Zodiac: Taurus
University: the University of Michigan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Cambridge
Education
She has a doctorate. He is an EIT of the Institute of Informatics and Artificial Intelligence (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). SM received a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, Cambridge, MA in 2013.
Her Master’s thesis on the estimation of the material properties of tissue from video received the Ernst A. Guillemin Dissertation Award for Outstanding S.M. I received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from MIT.
Katie Bouman Algorithm
In 2016, Bouman led an algorithm that contributed to the development of an imaging method. Bouman’s algorithm gave the picture of a supermassive black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy. Working with over 200 scientists, Bouman spent three years validating and selecting image parameters, using a series of telescopes to capture “sparse and glaring data” and validate images. The National Science Foundation unveiled a picture that was never seen on April 10, 2019.
The team that has been working for years to photograph black holes is called Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.